Stereotypical depictions of women in cartoons reinforces an expectations bias that men are authority figures while women are parents.
When Real Peanut Butter Is Not What or Where You Expect
Required by commerce in a market system, standard weights and measures not only take us to the kilogram or second but also even peanut butter.
Why Money Might Not Motivate Us
Investigating intrinsic and extrinsic incentives, researchers have explained why money does not always promote positive performance.
Why Eggs Aren’t Cheaper By the Dozen
Avian Flu and California’s new cage size regulations are creating shortages and higher production costs in the egg supply chain that will increase prices.
Weekly Roundup: From Slicing Bread to Saving Honeybees
Our everyday economics includes behavioral economics, commitment devices, environment, supply, regulation, free trade, gender issues and the minimum wage.
The One Big Issue Where Economists Disagree
Economic research on the impact of a higher minimum wage on employment provides no clear answers. Economists on each side say opposing research is flawed.
What Bread Says About Women
Through the industrialization of just one slice of bread, we can see the history of the U.S. economy since the beginning of the 20th century.
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership is About New Balance and Nike
Looking at tires, fashion and NAFTA, we can see the lost jobs opposition to free trade and the pro free trade response.
What the Big Mac Says About the Trans-Pacific Partnership
While opponents of the TPP free trade deal cite currency manipulation, cheaper exports from countries with cheaper currencies save money for U.S. buyers.
How Markets Can Save Honeybees
While a government task force will soon report on how to deal with the increase in honeybee deaths, instead the market system could solve the problem.
